The recipient, a Christie troll at the Port Authority named David Wildstein, emailed back at 7:35 a.m., only a minute later.

“Got it.”

But Wildstein’s almost-instant response was not out of any hurry to proceed with the scheme.

Just as true trolls might, they waited three weeks to the morning of Sept. 9, the first day of school.

The scandal is not just that the lanes were closed, but that the closing was timed to blindside kids as they waited excitedly and maybe already a little nervously for the bus in their back-to-school clothes and their new backpacks and fresh notebooks.

One of those kids was the son—then aged 3, now 4—of the dad who works the counter at E-Z Car Rental just two short blocks from where the lanes were closed. The boy was forced to wait two hours for the bus on his first day of school, before he even had a chance to then sit in traffic.

Dad in the meantime called the school, which truthfully pronounced itself mystified.

He had read the emails and texts that had surfaced in the news Wednesday morning, including a message from Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich to Christie’s most senior troll on the Port Authority, the then-deputy executive director, Bill Baroni.

“The bigger problem is getting kids to school,” Sokolich wrote.

Wildstein saw the text and there was an exchange between him and another person, who is identified in some accounts at Kelly.

“Is it wrong that I am smiling?” one of them asked, but adding with correct grammar and even a stirring of conscience, “I feel badly about the kids.”

“They’re the children of Buono voters,” the other one said, referring to Christie’s Democratic challenger, Barbara Buono.

That line so outraged the dad at E-Z Car Rental that he repeated it aloud on Wednesday afternoon. He then said simply, “It was uncalled for.”